"The European Union is bracing itself for a fresh bout of doom and gloom as the Irish look increasingly likely to deliver a mighty snub to Europe by rejecting the new Lisbon treaty in next week's referendum.

The latest opinion poll shows those intending to vote against the EU reform treaty doubling in number in recent weeks, soaring into a five-point lead over the "yes" camp.

A vote against the treaty would sink the ambitions of Berlin, Brussels and Paris to reshape the EU by giving it a sitting president, foreign minister, a diplomatic service, a new voting system and decision-taking powers, and streamlining the European commission."

Keep the heat on the EU faction, Ireland. The members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood did not sacrifice blood and money to free you from the United Kingdom only to have you surrender your sovereignty to a new kind of empire without any shots fired.

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Re: Irish Voters Poised to Sink EU Treaty

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But Ireland, uniquely, is constitutionally bound to stage referendums on EU treaties, meaning that less than 1% of the EU's population of more than 450 million has the power to determine the fate of European treaties